"Soyuz MS-13" with the new ISS crew docked with the station
The spacecraft "Soyuz MS-13" with Russian Alexander Skvortsov, Italian Luca Parmitano and American Andrew Morgan docked to the international space station (ISS), reports the journalist Last news from Baikonur.
Rocket "Soyuz-FG" with the spacecraft was launched from Baikonur spaceport on the first day of the weekend in 19. 28 GMT. Nine minutes after launch the Spacecraft separated from the third stage of the rocket and headed to the station. The flight was exactly 50 years after the fact, how the lunar module spacecraft "Apollo" with the crew for the first time in the history of mankind touched the moon's surface.
The ship docked with the ISS on four minutes earlier than scheduled - 1. 47 GMT.
at the station after alignment of the pressure and the opening of the hatches a new crew will meet Russian Astronaut Alexei Ovchinin and Americans Nick Hague and Christine cook.
The new crew is expected to conduct a series of experiments, including testing of robot control-text " Fedor ". In addition, in November the planned spacewalk.
Commander Alexander Skvortsov is the third time went to the ISS. Luca Parmitano - second, he had already worked on the station in 2013. For Andrew Morgan's 1st space Flight. Starlings and Parmitano will spend on the ISS 201 days (until February 6, 2020), Morgan - 256 days (until 1 April 2020).
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